It was from the Court therefore that the dislike professed for Gladstone by the English governing classes really derived its. impulse. This is the account given by Lady Wolseley of an evening at Windsor So we sat down together, the Queen and I. She was in a black silk dress made anyhow and nohow, and a lace shawl over her shoulders. To repeat the conversation is more than I can do. It was principally about Egypt, but with an occasional side wave to Gladstone ind politics. Rather interrogative and relenting partisan against Liberals ejaculatory on her part, submissive on mine. She has a more changing express
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.